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' H. B. SARGENT.

(ModeL) Lifting Handle.

"No; 237,911. Patented Feb. 15, 188i.

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HENRY B. SARGENT, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO SARGENT & 00., OF SAME PLACE.

LlFTlNG-HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 237,911, dated February 15, 1881. Application filed December 7, 1880. (Model) T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY B. SARGENT, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvementin Lifting-Handles; andldo hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and

which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a front View; Fig. 2, rear view; Fig. 3, transverse section of the bar complete; Fig. 4, transverse section of the bar as prepared to receive the back 5 Fig. 5, transverse section of the back detached.

This invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of cast netal lifting-handle bars, such as are commonly called coffin-handies, and that class which are so large as to be impracticable if cast solidthat is, if cast solid, they would be too heavy and expensive. To reduce the Weight and save the metal they may be cored in the process of casting. This is the method generally practiced. 1f cast so as to leave their own core, the back requires to be filled, because, unless filled, the back would be of inconvenient shape to apply the hand.

The object of this invention is to fill the back with thin metal; and it consists in the construction, as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

The outline of the handle A may be of any of the usual or desirable forms or shapes. 1t 5 is cast open upon the rear or under side, with two sides, B B, as seen in Fig. 4, which enables it to be molded so as to leave its own core. On the edge of each side B lugs or flanges a are formed in casting, so as to project from the sides, and also so as to leave a shoulder, d, on each side, on which the back C will rest, as seen in broken lines, Fig. 4, the lugs projecting beyond the outer surface of the back C. The back C is made from a strip of thin sheet 5 or other metal, so as to lie between the lugs or flanges a, as seen in broken lines, Fig. 4. Then the lugs or flanges a are turned inward and struck down upon the back, as seen in Fig. 3, which firmly secures the back in its place.

The flanges a may continue throughout the length ot'each side, instead of being made short, as seen in Fig. 4.

I claim- In a lifting-handle, the bar cast open upon its rear or under side, with a flange or flanges, a, projecting from each side, shoulders (1 inside said flanges, combined with a thin metal back introduced between said flanges and upon said shoulders, the flanges then' struck down upon the back, substantially as described.

HENRY B. SARGENT. Witnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, HARRY P. EARLE. 

